Baseball player Torii Hunter says Boston is so racist, his contracts had "do not trade me there"

[Professor K.]

I grew up in that area and I will never live there again because it's cold, and has a good amount of miserable people. But the way these threads always go, it's like the South and their outright racism doesn't exist

The South has an "excuse". The entire region went to war over it. It's bullshyt and these cacs should be castrated, but it makes relative sense at least. What's Boston's excuse for being equally/more racist than an entire region 1000 miles away?

 

[Rigby.]

I feel like even the liberals in Boston wouldn’t fukk with a breh

 

[Rigby.]

...and it would be easier to follow Tatum if he leaves.

Tatum seems like too much of a real nikka to be in Boston for too long. Jaylen as a person is also real as hell but he seems to be someone that can stomach BS from a franchise more. I think if Tatum got the heckling that could come (from Boston fans) if he had an epic choke moment, he’d dip

 

[Professor K.]

I wonder what Mookie Betts would have to say about this

 

[fact]

Tatum seems like too much of a real nikka to be in Boston for too long. Jaylen as a person is also real as hell but he seems to be someone that can stomach BS from a franchise more. I think if Tatum got the heckling that could come (from Boston fans) if he had an epic choke moment, he’d dip

I don’t agree with that shyt. The Celtics organization IS NOT the city of Boston. The Celtics organization, however you want to try and spin it, is probably the most progressive organization in the history of the league, through their actions, which has little to do with the city or the fans obviously. At the end of the day, the organization made the decision to put black players on the court when their own fans didn’t want them to, in spite of the racist fukking clowns. They made Bill Russell the coach and won a championship. You don’t really hear the racism out loud at a Celtics game, there are subtle things that can be called out, but at the end of the day, a lot of the fans now are just corny with the Gino shyt, the white mamba shyt, the Tako shyt, it’s corny. If it was up to the organization, Bill Russell would be to the city what Tom Brady, Ted Williams, Larry Bird, Bobby Orr combined and multiplied by 10 are. I will forever consider the city and the Celtics org two completely different entities. Jason Tatum has the opportunity to be the next captain of, and make his mark on one of the two greatest organizations in the history of the league, and the org will pay him whatever he wants, if that doesn’t happen, Ainge needs to go.

 

[Listen]

I came to grips a long time ago with this shyt. I used to be one of them dummies in here defending the city, especially in the hamster days, because I had some sort of imaginary "pride" towards a place where I experienced 80% of my live professional sports, and I have been to over 250 Red Sox games (haven't been since 2004) and over 150 Celtics games (and will still go to Celtics games if the opportunity is there). The majority of the Red Sox fans are human fukking garbage, at the game, at their house, everywhere. I spent just as much time in the bleachers as I did in box and field seats, and hand to god what any player says about the Fenway fans are true. The Patriot fans, the Bruins fans, even unfortunately, especially the older, and the "city" Celtics fans are inherently racist. I wish the fans on here would just fukking admit it, because when they don't, it just makes people go harder about it. I am a fukking expert on this with how much of my youth was tied to live sporting events in the city of Boston, so you can't really tell me any lies. It does not make me love my Celtics any less, the Red Sox, as an organization, fan base, etc...can eat a fukking dikk tho.

I've spent the better part of my life fighting that shyt isn't like that becasue me and the people I surround myself with aren't that way, and I like where I live and the teams I support... but as @NYC Rebel once told me, how can I pretend my experience trumps their experience?

I have been to a lot of Red Sox games and a lot of Celtics games and I have never heard the N word said......but the entire Northeast is filled with a bunch of meat head 100 IQ "Billy from Malden" white dudes who just ooze ignorance, bigotry and racism, so who am I to pretend that shyts not happening??

The past 2 weeks have opened the fukk out of my eyes on how many people i went to high school with came out of the closet as racist pricks on Facebook. shyts been way worse than I thought and showed me how fukking naive I was.

Feeling right stupid for always defending Boston on here now.

 

[NYChase718]

If it wasnt for manny ortiz pedro and dave roberts they would probly still be cursed

 

[SchoolboyC]

I don’t agree with that shyt. The Celtics organization IS NOT the city of Boston. The Celtics organization, however you want to try and spin it, is probably the most progressive organization in the history of the league, through their actions, which has little to do with the city or the fans obviously. At the end of the day, the organization made the decision to put black players on the court when their own fans didn’t want them to, in spite of the racist fukking clowns. They made Bill Russell the coach and won a championship. You don’t really hear the racism out loud at a Celtics game, there are subtle things that can be called out, but at the end of the day, a lot of the fans now are just corny with the Gino shyt, the white mamba shyt, the Tako shyt, it’s corny. If it was up to the organization, Bill Russell would be to the city what Tom Brady, Ted Williams, Larry Bird, Bobby Orr combined and multiplied by 10 are. I will forever consider the city and the Celtics org two completely different entities. Jason Tatum has the opportunity to be the next captain of, and make his mark on one of the two greatest organizations in the history of the league, and the org will pay him whatever he wants, if that doesn’t happen, Ainge needs to go.

Bill Russell himself has said that he hated the city of Boston and the people of Boston but loved the Celtics organization and still does.

It’s a tough dichotomy because a lot of people can’t separate their hate for the city of Boston from the actions & history of the organization, which is understandable.

That said, I don’t blame Torii Hunter or Adam Jones or anyone else for taking their stance.

 

[Copy Ninja]

The South has an "excuse". The entire region went to war over it. It's bullshyt and these cacs should be castrated, but it makes relative sense at least. What's Boston's excuse for being equally/more racist than an entire region 1000 miles away?

South has an excuse for openly hunting black people and actively suppressing their votes?

 

[Copy Ninja]

A lot of racism in the south is hidden because of the hospitality

Hidden? The fukk. Those dudes are riding around with confederate flags on their pickup trucks

Look at the elected officials a lot of these southern states elect

 

[Born2BKing]

Hidden? The fukk. Those dudes are riding around with confederate flags on their pickup trucks

Good point

 

[Professor K.]

South has an excuse for openly hunting black people and actively suppressing their votes?

All I'm saying is these cacs down here are the inbred kids of the biggest affront to patriotism this country has ever seen. Boston is just as racist as the whole South for no reason at all

 

[Copy Ninja]

All I'm saying is these cacs down here are the inbred kids of the biggest affront to patriotism this country has ever seen. Boston is just as racist as the whole South for no reason at all

Racist white people are racist white people no matter what state you're in

But in the South, look at the elected officials in Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia, Iowa, shyt, all those southern states. At the very least NE doesn't have enough of those types of outright racists to vote for those types of candidates. Those elected officials have far more impact on black people's lives than drunk racists shouting stupid shyt at athletes in sports events.

 

[fact]

I've spent the better part of my life fighting that shyt isn't like that becasue me and the people I surround myself with aren't that way, and I like where I live and the teams I support... but as @NYC Rebel once told me, how can I pretend my experience trumps their experience?

I have been to a lot of Red Sox games and a lot of Celtics games and I have never heard the N word said......but the entire Northeast is filled with a bunch of meat head 100 IQ "Billy from Malden" white dudes who just ooze ignorance, bigotry and racism, so who am I to pretend that shyts not happening??

The past 2 weeks have opened the fukk out of my eyes on how many people i went to high school with came out of the closet as racist pricks on Facebook. shyts been way worse than I thought and showed me how fukking naive I was.

Feeling right stupid for always defending Boston on here now.

Yeah, leaving NE at 18 opened my fukking eyes heavy, and stubborn pride from my youth had me always defending the city. I will claim some ignorance in the fact that even though I lived in the area my whole youth, I was not aware of the history of the Yawkey family until my 20’s, but it’s still no excuse from the things i have witnessed personally when I was a kid, when you are just so in love with the game and the experience of being at the game and my dad putting hands over my ears and telling drunks to respect the fact that children are there, you kind of block that shyt out. @NYC Rebel actually opened my eyes years ago when I was defending Belifukkface and the Patriots org, can’t even remember why, but the open fukking chaos in this country has taught me 2 things a few years ago.
1. Even though I can give my personal opinion on something if asked a question, there is no reason for me to even interject my opinion on the experiences of people of a different race, if they have experienced something, even if it was in my own house, it’s not my place to dispute it in any way, shape, or form.
2. People will jump out the fukking window in arguing about sports, blindly, and recklessly. As I got older and my priorities changed, although I still love my Celtics from birth to death, sports aren’t worth anything heavy enough on my life priority list to move the needle regarding my integrity. I stopped watching the NFL over the reaction to the kneeling by the govt, and it never even phased me. I stopped watching baseball completely after watching the Red Sox let Pedro walk away because of racist ass Curt Schilling. If sports can do anything to unify this country, which I don’t think it can, great, but either way, my family, my friends, my community are what is important. What is happening in this country, what has happened in this country since it was started pretty much, is a fukking sham. I’m very lucky to have not experienced the systemic warfare and complete atrocities that have been committed on minorities in this country, and this country needs to stop everything and figure out how to proceed, figure out how to overhaul it. I can’t think of any way things will get better, but we need a full scale revolution. Regarding just sports, the vast majority of the players are black, the vast majority of the owners are white, that is the first thing that needs to change.

 

[Professor K.]

Racist white people are racist white people no matter what state you're in

But in the South, look at the elected officials in Mississippi, Kentucky, West Virginia, Iowa, shyt, all those southern states. At the very least NE doesn't have enough of those types of outright racists to vote for those types of candidates. Those elected officials have far more impact on black people's lives than drunk racists shouting stupid shyt at athletes in sports events.

All you're arguing are democrat racists vs republican racists

No clue about specific policy amongst Massachusetts politicians, but I'm certain they're just as anti-Black as everyone else

But you think Iowa is the South so you got it breh